For an entrepreneur who made his first billion in 2012, Musk’s fortune now far exceeds that of MacKenzie Scott’s ex-husband and Amazon mogul. Find out more about the wealthiest man alive today.
The Technoking’s background and early accomplishments have been plastered all over the news and the world wide web to feed the public’s fascination with Musk’s rise to fame.
By 1994, Elon held two internships at Silicon Valley in Northern California. One was at the Pinnacle Research Institute, a startup facility researching ways to store energy more effectively.
Elon, his younger brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri started a software company called Zip2. With the help of Angel Investors, the Musk brothers and Kouri founded Global Link Information Network.